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One week we’re done with market crashes, the next week there’s more talk of bubbles and Wall Street antics wasting taxpayers’ money.  This list of market doom headlines is a good enough reminder of how the fear for the end of the world felt like just over one year ago now in early March 2009.
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Highest ever one-month inflation rise in the UK for December, fiscal imbalances in Greece, weakened macro-economics in Germany, a Canadian housing market bubble, higher than 50% gains in the commodity currencies since last March (2009), and the return of hubris and risk-taking in the U.S. investment banks… what do these all have in common?
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We thought the sub-prime housing bubble was bad, but recent signs are pointing to the next big bad bubble: long 30-yr US Treasuries.  People are buying these treasuries like gangbusters right now if they’re buying anything at all, because at least you can get a 3% safe return on them, and they’re completely liquid.
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